Posts Tagged "aspergers"

Name: Jared Cowan
Born: May 1987
Location: Tennessee
Organization Affiliation: None Officially, American Atheists Unofficially
Label: Atheist, Secularist, Secular Buddhist, Atheist With Buddhist Influences, Apatheist
Former Religious Affiliation: Presbyterian Christian, Deist
My Story
Being an atheist is still tough for me–to be out about in public with friends and family, as opposed to on the internet with its anonymity. I’m already socially awkward as it is. I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome only a year or so after my pressured conversion to Christianity, due mostly to...

Name: Jamie Shaw
Born: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Label: Atheist
Former Religious Affiliation: Christian
My Twisting and Turning Path to Atheism
Hello, my name is Jamie Shaw. I live in Northern Ireland and have a happy life there. I am visually impaired, I am blind in my left eye and it’s hard for me to see in my right. I was also diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome when I was young.
I lived in a mixed marriage household as a child. My father was Protestant and my mother Catholic. My sister and I were brought up to believe in the Christian...